Declarations and OA mandates

Background

• Public Library of Science - PLoS (2001), (http://www.plos.org/about/letter.html).
• Budapest Open Access Initiative (2002), (http://www.soros.org/openaccess/index.shtml).
• Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing (2003),  (http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/bethesda.htm).
• Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities (2003), (http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin).

Declarations and OA mandates from Science Funding Agencies

• Informe de l’European Research Advisory Board, “Scientific publication: Policy on Open access” (http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/pdf/scientific-publication-study_en.pdf)
• “Petition for guaranteed public access to publicly-funded research results” (http://www.ec-petition.eu/) firmada por DEFF, JISC, SPARC y SURF.

Declarations and OA mandates from the European Comission:

• “Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council and the European Economic and Social Committee on scientific information in the digital age: access, dissemination and preservation” (http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/document_library/pdf_06/communication-022007_en.pdf).
• “ERC Scientific Council Guidelines for Open Access”, (http://erc.europa.eu/pdf/ScC_Guidelines_Open_Access_revised_Dec07_FINAL.pdf).